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Another affidavit filed against Dharmendra
Bikaner, May 01: Barely two days after an Indore court rejected a plea against Dharmendra, the BJP candidate for the Bikaner Lok Sabha seat, an affidavit has been filed against the actor in a local court here alleging that he has tried to deceive people by claiming he was a ``Hindu Jat Sikh``.
Bikaner, May 01: Barely two days after an Indore court rejected a plea against Dharmendra, the BJP candidate for the Bikaner Lok Sabha seat, an affidavit has been filed against the actor in a local court here alleging that he has tried to deceive people by claiming he was a ''Hindu Jat Sikh''.
The case will come up for hearing before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (ii) Mahendra Singh on May ten.
In his plea, advocate Jagdish Sharma, a member of the Congress legal cell, demanded that a case under sections 420, 505 and 295 of the IPC be lodged against the film star.
He said Dharmendra had presented himself as a Hindu Jat Sikh to deceive the electorate while he had embraced Islam at the time of his marriage with Rajya Sabha member and actress Hema Malini in 1979.
Earlier, on April 28, Judicial Magistrate (First Class) Narendra Jain of the Indore court had dismissed the petition filed by the Madhya Pradesh Congress minorities cell vice-president Akhtar Baig and K K Mishra saying the complainants did not produce evidence relating to Dharmendra's nomination. The two Congress leaders had pleaded for registration of cases under different sections, including section 420 of the IPC, against the couple, alleging Dharmendra converted to Islam for marrying Hema and they adopted the names Dilawar Khan and Ayesha Bi. They said Dharmendra ''concealed information about his conversion'' while submitting his nomination for the Lok Sabha elections.
Baig and Mishra demanded termination of Hema Malini's Rajya Sabha membership as she took oath using her 'Hindu' name.
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The film star says the controversy is a ''nonsense''. Speaking earlier this week, he said he would ask the Congress leaders after the Lok Sabha polls why they had brought the case against him.
Besides the actor's religion, his caste too has become a subject of discussion in the state. While the Rajasthan Pradesh Jat Sabha says the actor is not a Jat but a Ramgarhia Sikh from Punjab, the All India Jat Mahasabha has described the actor as the ''community's pride''.
Bureau Report
Earlier, on April 28, Judicial Magistrate (First Class) Narendra Jain of the Indore court had dismissed the petition filed by the Madhya Pradesh Congress minorities cell vice-president Akhtar Baig and K K Mishra saying the complainants did not produce evidence relating to Dharmendra's nomination. The two Congress leaders had pleaded for registration of cases under different sections, including section 420 of the IPC, against the couple, alleging Dharmendra converted to Islam for marrying Hema and they adopted the names Dilawar Khan and Ayesha Bi. They said Dharmendra ''concealed information about his conversion'' while submitting his nomination for the Lok Sabha elections.
Baig and Mishra demanded termination of Hema Malini's Rajya Sabha membership as she took oath using her 'Hindu' name.
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The film star says the controversy is a ''nonsense''. Speaking earlier this week, he said he would ask the Congress leaders after the Lok Sabha polls why they had brought the case against him.
Besides the actor's religion, his caste too has become a subject of discussion in the state. While the Rajasthan Pradesh Jat Sabha says the actor is not a Jat but a Ramgarhia Sikh from Punjab, the All India Jat Mahasabha has described the actor as the ''community's pride''.
Bureau Report